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administration's role and what people are now calling bridge gate of new jersey governor chris christie on the defensive is this his nixon moment more on that we'd like to have him tell you i just also believe it or not republicans actually have to be coached on how to empathize with the unemployed that of course begs the question is it even possible for them to learn how to relate to everyday people and when you purchase something as dangerous as a car at the register register it with the state and buy insurance to protect yourself and others in the process of an accident should gun owners have to do the same thing with actual weapons more on that in tonight's daily to. you need to know this this morning new jersey governor chris christie held a press conference to answer questions and call him the political firestorm over

the george washington bridge lane closures scandal take a look. i have never obstructed justice and i think that i could say that in my years of public life that i welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president should have well i'm not a crook i everything i got. sorry we rolled the wrong clip there here's what christie actually said. no i am not a bully and what christie went on to deny having any direct knowledge of the politically motivated lane closures in fort lee and announced that he had fired bridget kelly his deputy chief of staff who played a major role in the lane closures fiasco also so they felt sorry for the death of a ninety one year old woman whose emergency medical treatment was delayed because

ambulances were stuck in the traffic nightmare and couldn't get to her and. so will christie's apologies and actions today be enough to call the storm in new jersey or is there more to this story and has the scandal permanently damaged christie's credibility and stock going into a potential twenty sixteen run for president on the republican side joining me now for more on this is mike tabun tonio attorney and host of ring of fire radio and refer t.v.'s free speech t.v. mike welcome back. create to see happy thoughts on today's press conference and this this whole this is a scandal. well i think what you're seeing is the emergence of what we've said all along that we have a governor up there that engages in al capone politics that's all this is look this isn't a comical petty political story like some people like to say like his people need to like to say this is

a story that involves criminality it involves obstruction of justice it involves obstruction of a police. investigation and it's continuing to get uglier by the minute as to whether or not this affects his presidential run probably from a standpoint of of him having a more realistic understanding of what it means when you put yourself in the middle of national politics it may be a little bit of a discouraged but i don't think it knocks him out of a race but his wife has got to be asking him he's got to be asking himself is this something i really want to fight through in twenty sixteen i think it's very going to be a very discouraging experience that he's going to have is this story develops his friend since high school the guy that he had appointed to basically be in charge of what was going on with that bridge david wildstein. here's a clip of him testifying today before the new jersey assembly. that document. refers to a meeting with port authority chairman david samson as

a not. on the advice of counsel i assert my right to remain silent. and that also refers to a meeting with the governor of the same day. mr chairman the advice of counsel i assert my right to remain silent now here's a clip of bobby kennedy questioning lewis fronto during the mcclellan hearings check the. very. very hard. and the audio that for some reason has really screwed up but is new jersey politics is starting to really resemble you know the old mafia.

style and that's what happened i. i think what you're what you're seeing here is is a character that his background is one of a u.s. attorney and he was always the one pushing people around and all of a sudden he understands you don't push people around without there being some ramifications listen here if you really honestly look at this story his position is i didn't know now this was this this wildstein fellow this david wildstein is somebody that he's grown up with he's around david wildstein all the time he has drinks with dale was wildstein they vacation together they're very very close and for anybody to assume that there hasn't been some discussion about what david wildstein did here is absurd and then you add to that that we just now start hearing the the good governor say gee whiz i didn't know about this this is

deplorable how can i possibly know when just weeks before he was joking about it he was trying to make it sound like it was a non-story you might read you might remember him saying this is this is a story that's not important the truth is that those the mimo that you were talking about this the string of memos that shows say that the obstruction was so bad that a person actually died because ambulance and his couldn't get that person to the hospital because of the congestion that was caused by his little trick his little political antics that was the first thing the second thing is children couldn't even attend school because of the way that this was done so now you have people within the administration to work around wildstein there saying you know what this isn't right now my prediction this is just a prediction is that the memos that you're talking about the ones that have been redacted somebody that turned those memos over they actually redacted one of the

names on that memo my prediction is the reason they redacted that memo is because somebody is on. already getting nervous and they would rather not have that person talked to this this is going to continue to spin out of control and we're going to see a lot of people come forward and say you know what this was wrong i don't want to be a part of it and there's no way to keep this genie in the bottle tom pap while wildstein took the fifth over and over and over again today basically never testified at all and as a consequence of that the new jersey assembly held him in the contempt of congress does that have any understanding is that doesn't have any place you know the congress doesn't have police powers that is a very different than being in contempt of court what's next for i think the i think what you're going to see this guy has a lot of enemies he has earned these enemies legitimately he this guy's name chris christie or david chris christie chris christie is a blowhard bully he's created

a lot of enemies in his career these enemies now see pay dirt so what you're going to see them doing is they're going to be going you're going to see a whole string of times when wildstein or his staff was asked questions about state police made by the federal police where they covered things up and at some point this these these underlings of wildstein are going to say you know i'm not going to go down with this ship and so the fact that he pleaded fifth is almost irrelevant when they say when they serve a grand jury subpoena on some of these people who are asking themselves why in the hell should i lie for this big old guy why should i do that what's going to what's what's going to do my career that right now they're they're free and clear it's only when they start lying if they're watching this broadcast right now i would advise them go get an attorney lawyer up in whatever you do do not get sucked into the idea that this is going to be this is going to go away because chris christie

somehow has huge political influence his huge political and. was just knocked down about one hundred notches my friend so to protect chris christie or wildstein or any of these people is insane right now and you're going to have a lot of people figure that out they're going to talk to their lawyers in the lawyers going to say you know now is the time for you to go forward while you still can while this does not spin out of control meanwhile today and back in washington d.c. senators max baucus and orrin hatch and congressman dave camp introduced the bipartisan congressional trade priorities act of twenty to fourteen sounds fancy but basically this is the set up the fast track for t p p thoughts on that. you know that's exactly what it is what's been happening is that finally the american public by way of programs like yours tom i want to tell you that by way of programs like yours by way of of the citizens media the broad citizens media on the internet and all

different sorts of citizens media the word has gotten out that this is a president that has been trying to hustle the american public by trying to push this thing through now he sees feeling he right now he's feeling major heat so what he says to his pal baucus and what he says to orrin hatch that have already you know you've got baucus right by the side of of obama they're saying look let us take the heat let us go ahead and go forward with this thing let us change the nature of the fast track and stay in take some of this attention off of you this is a this is not a good move people who are looking at this are saying gee whiz now congress is going to have a chance to really look at this thing and make some major decisions it's not exactly what's happening here and and what will it well first of all you think the t.v. is going to or the fast track is going to get through i mean this was so below the radar today it was amazing to me no i don't think it will because if anything if

anything this may have been a tactical error because it caused more tension to the d.p.p. you. you have a real polarization there in the d.c. beltway on this thing you have republicans that hate this just as much as democrats and they have every reason to hate it it is an abomination it is nafta on steroids it is calf on steroids it will take away our sense of self sovereignty it will destroy the american labor union it will destroy the american labor movement jobs will be shipped out of overseas far worse than we've ever seen or could imagine it's it's pretty amazing what what to what these guys are trying to do like happened tony always a pleasure to see my friend thank you for joining he's. going up it seems like no matter what the big banks do these days no matter what criminal actions are executives commit they never face any real punishment from washington so why is that. actual wall street insider after the break.

got a code for years that's pretty tough. as they were it's a story. it's just this guys like you but smear that guys stead of working for the people most issues the beach the media were pretty chummy bribes to. the brother but it was. a pretty. it was a. very hard to take. place that had sat with me here.

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the does the rest of the news on wednesday senators a loop of warning tom coburn proposed a new bill called the truth in settlements act if passed the act would require federal agencies to give a line by line explanation of how a specific settlement with the financial institution for example j.p. morgan chase actually affects that it's intuitions bottom line the idea is to hold the government accountable for its often less than satisfactory settlements with banks this fall for example j.p. morgan received thirteen billion dollars settlement with the federal government or the avenue which was tax deductible or the five years after wall street crash the economy the big banks are bigger than ever and just as immunise seems of any real

punishment no major bank executive has yet to go to jail for their role in the financial crisis at least not the united states if you know iceland yet not a month goes by without some major scandal revealing almost pathological levels of criminality in our financial system first it was the london whale scandal but it was a live war and after that it was the news that h.s.b.c. helped launder money for north american drug cartels but this wall street how does wall street continue to get away with such obvious criminal activity and what can we do to keep the big banks in check joining me now for more on this is larry doyle . former mortgage backed securities trader with bear stearns bank of america and j.p. morgan and author of the new book in bed with wall street conspiracy to cripple our global economy and larry welcome to the program tom thanks for having me on spirit see to cripple the global economy is no more a conspiracy to take everything they can get and if it cripples the global economy

so what. i guess depending on how you want to look at it. perhaps some of both but in fact in looking hard at this as i have over the course of the last five years and i realize the term conspiracy is a it's an aggressive term. but when you look at the preponderance of evidence from the banking system to the legislative process in the regulatory process ultimately the only appropriate word is in fact a conspiracy given the amount of money that has flow flowed from wall street to washington d. the. the payoffs back to wall street but then also the. the regulators basically being complicit and as i define them little more than meter maids so you've got regulatory capture and you've got basically says united on steroids that's not good. these are two arguably two separate

issues although you can see where they contaminate each other. let's go let's come back to that to say i want to talk about fin of the financial industry regulatory authority this plays a big role in your book and i think most people have not ever heard of it tell us what is finra why should we care. every american should care about you know finra finner is the financial industry regulatory authority this is wall street's largest self regulator. and it's what with wall street's largest regulator too isn't it well it is well you know outside of the side of the the f.c.c. in the fed wall street to a very large extent is itself regulated industry i would maintain that many americans are not even aware of that that's a problem because what does that mean wall street whether it's goldman sachs or j.p. morgan whoever it is is funding this regulator so the regulator can in turn regulate that it's fox meat chicken coop. again in in spades right when you when you explain

that i mean that that presents a potential for massive conflicts of interest and in looking deeply inside this organization that's effectively what on earth and exposed in the book itself evident finra not only regulates but the industry but figure also has its own internal investment portfolio which you are you i fox meat chicken coop where the fox and as far as i defined it i mean fender is not only the the cops walking the floor of the casino but you know what they actually have some of their money at the tables as well i mean that's that's that's problematic. so how did it how did that happen. how did that happen as a back to the deregulation mania of the late seventy's early eighty's or is this true this is all or phil gramm not going to they're told this goes back to one nine hundred thirty nine really it does because coming out of the depression. the one nine hundred thirty s. was the first kind of go around when we had some significant sort of regulation

sure the securities and exchange act. as well as the securities act of one nine hundred thirty three but what washington didn't deal with was what do we do with the over the counter market which is largely fixed income instruments and so they said what we the government could regulate or perhaps will save the government some money the the industry to regulate itself so they set up this entity called the national association of securities dealers in any state the equity exchanges had their own self-regulatory arm as well. history of the n.a.s.d. has been. not what you would call exemplary it had serious issues throughout that throughout their history and ultimately at the behest of individuals like hank paulson they presided over the f.c.c. to allow the self-regulatory entities the n.a.s.d. and the regulatory arm of the new york stock exchange to merge that merger occurred in two thousand and seven and that's and that's what formed finra ok. the volcker

rule we do we just have about a minute left here are your thoughts on the volcker rule the vocal rule in my opinion at the margins is ok but i honestly think that it actually serves the did as a distraction or just another hurdle to the biggest issue in what is that the too big to fail model under which wall street currently operates to think that the volcker will impact or end too big to fail is ridiculous yeah i want a lot of too big to fail goes back to eighty two and reagan stopped in force in the sherman act and we saw this explosion of mergers and acquisitions and there's been nobody has rolled that back yet is that is that we have what we have as a result is wall street right now is nothing more than an oligopoly and an oligopoly is not exactly healthy for an economy that would like to promote free market cattle and that's true of virtually every industry sector by the way not just finance that's right but so what do we do what do we do we do a number of things we start implementing the steps needed to end too big to fail

start up the banks start breaking up the banks in my opinion we need other things to promote transparency we need an office of whistleblower protection there were individuals on wall street who were looking to blow the whistle they were ignored intimidated or fired i think we need to end this the system of self regulation in my opinion self-regulation does not work will not work it's a farce and it is all too much evidence of that and i also think that we need to launch a privately staffed financial regulatory review board somebody to sit between the regulators and congress great stuff larry thank you so much for being tom thanks for having me on great suggestion is shit. in scrutineers on tuesday the senate advanced legislation that would temporarily

extend unemployment insurance for one point three million americans well after the senate bends that legislation republican senator kelly ion of new hampshire introduced an amendment that would make a low income american children of undocumented immigrants in eligible for the additional child tax credit by requiring their undocumented parents to have a social security number to be an american citizen to claim the credit in other words will only support an extension of unemployment benefits for one point three million americans if the citizen children of undocumented immigrants are made to suffer these are american citizens is this the game republicans want to play really screw over one class of americans in order to help another that's as rusty humphries for us to welcome welcome back thank you tom first of all that's exactly right you want one class of americans to screw another class and that is the illegal immigrants and their children to screw people like you and me who are

paying the bill children as soon as it was week. but they their parents came here knowing that they would get freebies if they had children are in our shores and they well you know like i change that law i mean change the fourteenth amendment but they're but these children are citizens of the united states and i'm with you on that it certainly should be change but the problem is is that we have a we have a system and we have guys like you are very nice it feels good to feel bad for folks like this that says you know what come on doesn't matter we'll take care of you know we can't afford it anymore i wish we could we can't afford it anymore this is a tax credit these these folks only get this tax credit if they're actually paying income taxes first of all and secondly it is for these kids. who are american citizens it seems to me like like what kelly. how are you say that. basically what she's saying is you know the only way that we're going to help americans who are unemployed that we're going to extend unemployment insurance is

if we can find some other americans who are who are definitely not rich folks and most likely not white folks to screw. well tom you can look at it that way and i think that's wrong and pretty jaded to be honest what it tells me how it is wrong i'll tell you how it's wrong it's wrong because you've got people that are coming into our country taking advantage we can't afford it anymore ok so you're saying that then we can't we can't extend autum unemployment benefits for average working americans if we can if we can screw those folks you know those are the folks who go back to the children of the people who came in the country illiterate tom you and i are friends we've known each other for a long time and i've been having a tough time myself personally you know what's going on i can't talk about it on television but i will tell you that i understand what it's like to not receive a paycheck i understand how difficult it is but i also understand if i just sat around on the couch eating bon bons watching oprah or whatever show is big right now reality t.v.

shows what happens is is it drains your desire and your hunger to go out and buy a rusty unemployed people aren't doing that when you're ninety nine weeks time almost two years one yeah the average american right now is it takes thirty five weeks to get a job ok well that's you want to go thirty three times is not enough and you want to do more now. you know you've got seven people seven people looking for every job out there right now and until frankly i think you know the simple solution to that if you don't want to pay unemployment benefits is for the government to be the employer of last resort like we did in the one nine hundred thirty s. we have bridges in need to be built we go let's let the government a carrying out be great here's the problem what can afford that if you there are we can't afford research let's go where the richest country on earth we have tax collections right now to this a sixty year low. the six year low because we've got the tax the tax rates are so high people are starting to be a fraid of of following through and that's the becoming they're going to have more

of a problem people are going to want to spend more in taxes when they're able to create more and i'm telling you tom i know it sounds good we just want to help out poor people we want to help them out we're not helping them by saying ninety nine weeks of unemployment isn't enough you're not helping there are so. yes at ninety nine weeks and by the way didn't we already do this once or twice before. extending ninety nine weeks yeah we did you know we're coming out of the worst recession since the great depression and then it seems like we appreciate all the capitalism we also got every bit as years or so we had to do something for the people rather than just the banks but rusty thank you for dropping by it's good to see you my friend are you to take your. rusty offered. up the phone lines are now open for our your take my take live segment if you want to chance to ask me a question live here in the big picture it was a caller to a toot i know for twenty one thirty four maybe i'll be talking to you after the

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lot of music might take a live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make comment ask question live on the air give us a call at two zero zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four and one before the number if you're outside the us start the messenger received an hour rant whine about extending unemployment benefits. archie from yucca valley i hate it's of up six point two five billion dollars to do this unemployment extension on monday i got on the phone called democrats and republicans and told them she our new thank you tom and oh one us thing nobody talks about they might have children they might have

a wife they might have a husband name i'd have parents they might have adopted kids one job lost my her whole group of people it's you talk about trickle down. thanks tom yeah we have trickle down pain right now it seems to be the john boehner eric cantor message paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and all all the others you're right and it's it's it's tragic it's absolutely tragic and in fact it's even extending now a got the republicans blocking an extension of unemployment benefits are ran out right after christmas and then. now we hear also with food stamps the democrats did their usual oh well we'll negotiate with ourselves in advance and give suffer way before we even start talking to republicans so we're going to give away if we're going to negotiate away four billion dollars worth of food stamp benefits so they

go the republicans say see we are to give up four billion is that good enough for you there for republicans of course say no we want forty billion and it looks like they're going to compromise around eight or nine billion in cuts to food stamps at the same time that there's no long term unemployment benefits at the same time that we've got you know thirty two years or reaganomics is ripping apart arca it's it's nuts here's a nother message received on our rant line. free market capitalism to benefit the top one percent neither free nor constitutional the word capitalism is not in the constitution it's actually an unholy the root of all evil pound scheme ask your wallet it will tell you the truth. you're right first of all there's no such thing as a free market markets are created by governments they're created by people they have rules. and we get to define what the rules of the marketplace are and

secondly what we have been increasingly doing is defining those rules at least since the one nine hundred eighty s. as the rich get richer the poor get poorer the middle class gets screwed who needs unions those you know you know those. you know the drill. you want to make it in china you want to make it in vietnam they want to make it someplace else that's why we need to change those things danny in little rock arkansas hey danny thanks for calling what's on your mind and i. love the show. and. all of a lot of the sonar to watch your wide diversity programs and a lack of belief people that they should. they should have a job there's always there's jobs out there i mean for unemployment also i just believe that there should be they can create jobs any time if they allow the entrepreneurial spirit to grow we can all create our own what is what is inhibiting danny the entrepreneurial spirit right. right now i. don't want

any body any money at this point. they take a lot of money for people to banks and insurance is unbelievable i have to run a small business and what i say to the banks and to the insurance companies is the reason i can't make any money into the government and. my ankles are right and there are borrowing money at almost nothing and banks are doing just fine thank you very much a guarantee. it's a good point. danny thanks a lot for the call appreciate it john in chicago hey john what's on your mind and. i was kind of got offended by what they said because it doesn't make sense how he could say that about immigrants shouldn't be because on the native american it highly offensive mean because i'm native american and if you look at the white people and even the so. it's like how he's in the discriminate against other races when a nobody is supposed to be anyways the side of the native so you just sit there and

actually say that nobody mexicans us ought to be one big family whether we like it or not in a nobody can tell me different because i don't understand it's tough yeah john you're absolutely right and thanks for the call and making that point you're the one guy not the one guy but i mean you represent a member of the one group in this country that actually has a legitimate basis to say immigrant go home to everybody else remarkable well said philip in clearwater florida philip what's on your mind. is not great but i was growing up talk about the. unemployment benefits i had i got caught up in a two thousand a thing you know employers are letting people go because they couldn't afford all the crap that went down with that and i went to this place it was called a work center. where you could put you on

a plan get benefits and they were there to help you they were there to show you where to go fill out the paperwork and qantas sucks the way that company is run because i they told me when i left the job you don't have money when you get out so don't even worry you know i never got any on a plane that money just was you know three thousand that's not my job that they said they were to have for me and i think because the fact that it's about the paperwork right and i call the people you know i said listen you know about the paperwork wrong in every case maybe philip i appreciate your call but. i can't just drill into the personal details of your problem i empathize with you i sorry to hear about the story but be raise a really really interesting and important point and that is that during hard times people are desperate people are really i mean they're people are really really looking for answers and looking for help and that's when the predators come in and

there's a whole little mini industry payday loan industry and now they will help you fill out the paperwork industry and there's all these little industries that have sprung up around squeezing the very last dollar they possibly get out of people who are unemployed and it sounds to me like you got caught by one of those companies and i'm very sorry to hear that but everybody needs to be aware you know if. somebody is offering to help you out with something and they're not literally with a government agency and can't prove that they're with a government. and there probably was the for profit corporations trying to hustle so be very very very very very wary kevin in rochester new york having what's on your mind. just touch on food stamps you know i understand that everything has to help people but the same time somebody who works really hard living paycheck to

paycheck and you're in the grocery store and you see somebody with more groceries. but more groceries than i could even afford to go in there on the given we can get things that they get to make some of the bitter food stamps work to about a buck and a half a per meal per day i don't think you're going to see somebody on food stamps. living high on the hog. but it's going in there and getting more groceries i would be able to go in and get. that might have been us not in that person's monthly trip it might have been that that person doesn't have a car and that was that one day out of the month that they get somebody else to drive. you know i get that you work and you resent it that somebody who is getting benefits is getting benefits but the day may come when you would need those benefits. and i understand that but there's.

such thing as working towards yourself in that position and you do. thanks for the call but i. strongly suggest that you. just talk to some of those folks. what you're going to find is that they didn't just like say hey gee i think i'll go on food stamps i think i'll be fun to be homeless i think you know maybe i'll just take on employment benefits and. it's not going to i mean maybe one or two or three percent. but it's it's insignificant compared to the people who are in genuine pain in genuine hunger and genuine distress. richard philadelphia hey richard. i appreciate truth show. this but you know the we have interesting people in the government that like to prevent

people from getting the job in the. background. we can get only benefits because they want to prevent people that a part time work or to get the benefits they work six months a year and they don't get the benefits that they're supposed to get they put a forty nine point five percent on top of the offer that you can't get benefits. i don't understand what you're talking about richard. in the sense of a little all out now dave if you don't make forty nine point five percent of your base year you're still not eligible even though you made night. say ok so it's it's it's eligible for state benefits of some sort. correct. i'm sorry to hear that it's this is you've got to. get out of the really good.

yeah. that's terrible thanks for the call thanks for sharing the story with us i mean this is you know welcome to republican governors republican legislatures. i guarantee of the millionaires and billionaires in philadelphia doing. blake in bakersfield california ape like what's on your mind tonight hey tom i had a question on your interview. with press being crucial to a democracy and i'm just wondering where you're saying that it's a democracy that we are democracy when the word doesn't appear in any official documents of our country yeah you're right back back in the day and and thanks for the call and for making that point back in the day i was referred to as a republic and all of the the word democracy was used a fair amount if you go see if you read the debates in the constitutional convention. in the summer of seventeen eighty. seven i think it was in

philadelphia. but james madison invented this artificial distinction between democracies and republics in federalist number ten or twelve in order to help sell the constitution is a whole fascinating story behind that but let's call it a republic i don't care what you call it republicans would prefer to call it republicans a sounds more like republican and they don't like calling it a democracy because it sounds like democrat and this goes back to them occur. at the john mccarthy it is but you know it's really a democratic republic that's it for your take my take live thanks for all your calls we didn't get your call tonight it was call back next week keep the video questions coming it's easy just grab your phone and pointed at yourself and record a question and then e-mail it to us your take my take at g.-mail dot com. coming up the solution america's gun problem is really simple start treating firearms like cars explain how we can do that tonight's deleted.

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it's thursday let's get geeky on permafrost which is a fancy name for that frozen ground that covers nearly one sixth of our planet and thanks to global warming and climate change that frozen ground is thawing and melting and that could mean major problems for the environment and the human race obviously a melting permafrost compose significant problems for the various animals and plants that call it home but scientists are now also concerned about the massive amount of carbon that's trapped and frozen in the permafrost and that is being released as the permafrost continues to thaw research shows that the amount of

carbon trapped underground could be twice as much as the amount of carbon that's currently in our atmosphere that's a lot of carbon and if that's the case in the perma thought frost continues to thaw all that carbon will be released into the atmosphere and will cause temperatures to rise faster than has been predicted but that's not the only danger the trap carpet presents dr greedo gross at the alfred wegener institute in germany told science world report permafrost can be seen as a freezer you open it and the organic material inside starts to rot and some of that organic material includes viruses and diseases that have been frozen in the permafrost for hundreds of thousands of years. from the center for geo genetics and denmark said that permafrost contains d.n.a. sequences of diseases from five hundred thousand years ago living bacteria today could incorporate these genes and spread pandemics for which present day organisms

would be like you and me have lost immunity if climate change continues at its current pace we could be dealing with diseases and viruses that we don't have a cure for don't even have any advance knowledge about. we've known about the dangers of global warming and climate change for a while now but this new research really raises the stakes unless you want to be dealing with a buncha really nasty viruses and diseases it's time to get serious about the greatest threat that human face races are faced. dog doo doo direction. no one likes having to clean up after their dog younger ones can be especially difficult it's like the anyway but according to a new paper published in the journal front in the ology your dog poop

habits are actually quite logical the paper's authors study the behavior of the bathroom behavior of seventeen different dogs over the course of two years and one thousand eight hundred ninety three poops later found something very interesting dogs are sensitive to small variations in the earth's magnetic field and prefer to excrete with the body being aligned along the north south access that's right your pup is a little poops are nature's own compass says it may be smelly but they'll be out when you're in need now you know that if you ever get lost when you're out on a walk with your dog all you need to do to find your way home is follow you know. it's the good the bad of a very very. quickly ugly good michael the buyer

montgomery texas restaurant owners are earning praise this week for how he helped out a young employee nineteen year old brittany mathis a cancer patient struggling to pay her medic. bills. the nineteen year old doesn't have insurance hasn't signed up yet for affordable health care the medical bills are piling up and treatment has stopped because they waited thank you so michael the buyer of their boss is selling his family six thousand square foot restaurant to donate money to brittany that looks something as important as health care should never be left up to private charity but there's no denying the selflessness michael divider displayed by selling his business to pay for his employees medical bills and sort of generosity is well deserved praise the bad governor paul le page the main governor and tea party favorite has spent his first term in office harping on

what he says is the rampant problem of welfare fraud in the pine tree state here's the thing though the pages own studies say that welfare fraud isn't that big a problem on tuesday the governor released data showing that maine welfare recipients had used their e.v.t. their welfare cards at bars and nightclubs around the state three thousand times over a two year period two thousand and twenty thirteen. all those numbers look bad at first glance they really don't add up to touch on closer examination those three thousand transactions accounted for two tenths of one percent of all e.v.t. transactions made by mean residents in the two year period covered by the pages data in the end though that doesn't matter because the gov page is only interested in demonizing the poor facts. and the very very ugly. maybe roger ailes the fox so-called new c.e.o. doesn't exactly have the most savory of reputations allegations in reporter gabriel

sherman the new book the loudest voice in the room suggest that reputation may be pretty close to the truth according to the new york times which just published a preview of the book a television producer randy harrison told mr sherman the wall negotiating or sell. with mr ailes at n.b.c. in the one nine hundred eighty s. he offered her an additional hundred dollars each week if you agree to have sex with me whenever i want. if those allegations are true that's amazing. in fact you see representative leslie combs had an embarrassing moment tuesday during a meeting with fellow state representative jeff greer shacks adeptly fired her ruger semiautomatic handgun no one was heard

a bullet flat fragments flew all over the room damaging the carpet in a nearby bookshelf as combs told a local news station she was trying to load the gun one off. the sucker away an idea and i simply i was going through the process as i've been trying to do ok had it pointed in the proper direction like i've been trying to i was disarmament like i've been trying to do. so at least that i'm again. representative columns is right mistakes happen when you're dealing with weapons like the ruger semi automatic and she had her purse at the end result isn't always as innocuous as what happened in their office on tuesday ultimately guns are dangerous tools created for one purpose and one purpose alone killing it all too often a mistake with a firearm causes serious injury or death number of unintentional gun deaths every year hovers or so around several hundred according to gun policy dot org there were

five hundred fifty four accidental gun deaths in two thousand and nine six hundred six in two thousand and ten this isn't just in the united states and eight hundred fifty one in two thousand and eleven tragically children are often the victims. mother jones estimates that of the one hundred ninety four kids killed in the year after the newtown massacre almost half eighty four were killed by accident of those eighty four children one of them was three year old ryder rozier who shot himself with a loaded gun found in his uncle's bedroom another was six year old brandon hole who was shot and killed by a friend who was playing with a twenty two caliber rifle he found in his house the plague of accidental gun deaths has continued into twenty fourteen just last week there were twenty three different accidental shootings of children eight involving preteens as long as guns are accessible and available unintentional gun deaths will happen this is just reality guns are dangerous weapons and that's why it's time we started treating

them like we do cars like guns cars can kill every year tens of thousands of americans die in car accidents cars a two ton hunk of speeding metal and if it's not used carefully it can kill people but owning a car is actually more difficult than owning a gun before you can legally drive your car yet pass a test and get a driver's license and if you own a car and want to drive it around at the register it with your local d.m.v. and you have to insure yourself and your car we require car owners to do these things because we think it's important to put some accountability into the use of potentially deadly machines however thanks to a tireless efforts by the gun industry and its front group the n.r.a. post such system exists for gun owners in fact just the mention of gun registration gets the far right worked up into a frenzy and. in reality though there shouldn't be any difference between only gun

you know new car they're both powerful and potentially deadly yet we only require car owners to register their vehicles and insure themselves against accidents and death. that's all rageous especially when you consider that by two thousand and fifteen gun deaths are expected to overtake traffic fatalities as the leading cause of non-medical deaths in the united states. just like cars and guns should be registered in the time they're made to the time they're destroyed so there's a continuous chain of ownership anyone who owns a gun should be required to have liability insurance so if they injure or kill somebody the victim or the victim's family will receive some sort of monetary damages every statement country should require gun owners to pass a competency test just like drivers do and get a shooters license before they can carry or use a gun it's just common sense it goes without saying that we need robust going

control measures like universal background checks and bama assault weapons closing the gun show loophole but we also need to stop treating guns like sacred cows and start treating them for what they are deadly weapons that require regulation and insurance a matter what wayne la pierre says there is no such thing as an unlimited right. especially when it comes to deadly weapons like with the first about that right you can't just walk into a crowded theater and yell fire you should be allowed to own a gun without first demonstrating to society that you're fit to do so and committed and responsible and have liability insurance nothing is going to bring back the hundreds of people accidently killed every year by irresponsible gun owners but if we started treating guns like cars people would think twice about leaving their shotgun hanging around the house or keeping their handgun law. and who knows we might just save some lives in fact we almost certainly would in the process. and

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